Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

As more and more politicians dive into the world of Social Media, the way we communicate and interact with our local and national representatives is changing. Lessons in Local Tech: Sustainable Food 2.0 Reggie Bibbs is on a one-man mission to raise awareness of his disorder, neurofibromatosis. Are you eating well? With snacks!

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JULY 31, 2009

I think at the national level we're always going to have The New York Times , CNN, and The Washington Post to do national investigations, but what we really are threatened to lose in the next year to five years is local investigations and local reporting. Obviously, local civic journalism is incredibly important to me.

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MARCH 26, 2010

You can imagine how excited I was to find out about Fat Bottom Bakery , a vegan bakery in Oakland, CA (where I live) that makes all kind of desserts, including cupcakes! They also produce the East Bay Vegan Bake Sale where they sell baked goods to raise money for charity. CW: For me, veganism is an extension of how I was raised.

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DECEMBER 14, 2006

lead her to demonstrate outside the Chinese embassy in London, travel to Tibet, jump out of a plane to raise money, organize a 50-foot banner of the Dalai Lama to be unfurled from Nelson's column, and meet the Dalai Lama. A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World describes Losada's journey from navel gazer to activist. books social change

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APRIL 25, 2008

We are based in Oakland, but we do work nationally, and in many cases globally, but our funding is always under constraints. BB: A lot of your work at United for a Fair Economy was raising awareness and doing research and studies about the racial wealth divide. If the most affected are raised up, then that will make waves outward.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2014

On a local scale, our neighbors at OpenOakland are exposing the campaign finances of Oakland mayoral candidates. The finance data was self-reported by all Oakland mayoral candidate controlled committees. The data categories include: Total money raised. Percentage of amount of itemized contributions from Oakland.

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JUNE 22, 2006

We started taking youth from inner cities, of places like Oakland and East Palo Alto, into the woods. So as we're making a positive difference, we're actually in this network of support of all these incredible organizations and human beings who are doing wildly amazing work, and it almost just raises each of us up to the highest level.

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APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. And in those communities high school is a luxury, so the local school in the local community typically goes through sixth grade.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

To support this vision, the Drivers Cooperative has been successful in raising more than $1.4 How to raise capital to develop a sophisticated app that is able to compete with Uber? The development of a fully functioning on-demand app is expected to bring more visibility to the cooperative rideshare community in the coming year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2009

which has raised $3,785. In one of our more successfully fundraising examples we caught the attention of a local blog that covered crime in Oakland. It worked out well – raising a few hundred dollars and spreading through a few other email lists eventually propelling us to our goal within 12 days. series on Spot.Us

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2006

Nola is as old as the Center she works for, thirty, and over the past two years, she has become an expert on sexually exploited minors in Oakland and has watched as the population grows. When I asked her why teenage prostitution is so prevalent in Oakland, she said, "Because they can do it here. It can't happen fast enough."

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Our mission is to strengthen the voice of activist artists - 'Artivists' - while raising public awareness for social global causes." Just an fyi (: Photo taken by me at March 2003 Iraq War protest in Oakland, CA creativity activism art film craft photography music. Photojournalist Paola Gianturco's book, Women Who Light the Dark.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In addition to encouraging donations, North Shore Animal League also enables supporters to raise money on their behalf through an integrated Blackbaud peer-to-peer fundraising tool. In doing so, they provide 2,500 meals and 200 bags of groceries for clients in the San Francisco and Oakland area every day.

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JUNE 30, 2007

And as Britt said, I also am the Art and Media Director at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , which is based out of Oakland. The homicide rate, as people are probably aware of, has just really increased in the last few years in Oakland, where I live. Raise your hand if you have heard of or have been inspired by Vandana Shiva.

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